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A93967 Stange [sic] and terrible news from Holland of a most lamentable tempest that happened at Utrecht and Amsterdam which did not only amaze the inhabitants, but did also very great damage to their houses, blowing down an innumerable company of tops of houses and chimnies, and utterly destroyed one of their cathedral churches, and rooted up many trees. 1674 (1674) Wing S5828A; ESTC R42890 3,206 11

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STANGE and TERRIBLE NEWS FROM HOLLAND Of a most Lamentable TEMPEST That happened at UTRECHT and AMSTERDAM Which did not only Amaze the Inhabitants but did also very great Damage to their Houses blowing down an innumerable company of Tops of Houses and Chimnies and utterly Destroyed one of their Cathedral Churches and Rooted up many Trees LONDON Printed for Thomas Wood 1674. Strange and Wonderful News from Holland Both from Utrecht and Amsterdam c. ALthough the whole Universe throughout its Vast Circumference be as Naturalists excellently Phrase it but one great Volume wherein in visible effects of Power the Invisible former of all things is too plainly legible not to be discerned by all Eies Yet in this great Folio the Meteors that is the Clouds Wind Thunder Comets prodigious Flames Earthquakes and other wonderful Apparitions in the Elements are the great Characters wherein his Divinity doth in the course of Nature most conspicuously declare it self Eor if we compare these amazing Phaenomena with other works of Nature we may justly pronounce that there he expresses himself in small but here all in Capitals And accordingly we may observe the Scripture to make these Regions of the Air which give these Miscellaneous substances their Birth to be as were the Sphere of Gods Armory his great Store-house and Magazine from whence upon occasion of the Worlds wickedness when ease and pleasure makes Mortals so insolent as to question his Being he takes out Artillery to Terrifie into a sense those who in the soft Whispers of a Calm and Serene Skie will not acknowledge him For there are said to be the Treasures of his Chariots there he utters that voice of his we call Thunder and thence discharges the dreadful Shot of his right aiming Thunderbolts And as we poor Mortals in Fleshy Cottages are most moved by sense so the Omnipotent Creator makes choice of these strange Exhalations as the most effectual means to work on our external Organs and thereby to effect our otherwise insolent and audacious minds with a just awe and terror of his Majesty For although the conception and Idea of a Deity be a Celestial Fire so natural burning in out Souls as that like the stone Asbestos it is not to be quenched yet by the Atheistical endeavours of terrene and Voluptuous men it may so far be smothered as not to manifest it by any Visible Flame but the effects of his Power are so moving and violently forcible that when God is pleased to utter his Voice in Thunder or Attacque our Desperadoes hearts in Mountains of Briny Liquor and roar his Greatness in their Ears with the violent gusts of Tempestuous winds attended with the horrid Flames spit out of fiery Hurricanes or the astonishing Yells Ecchoed from the Bowels of the Quaking Earth 'T is not the stoutest Atheist in such a time that will not bate of his courage and in spight of his desperate Principles eat his own words and in horror and trembling confesse that Power which other times he not only denies but with Oaths and Damees would Hector out of the world That Rhodomantado of Atheism Caius Caligulae though in his Pride he could have the Artogance to stile himself the Lord God Caligula and once in a Huffing Pet could challenge his great God Jupiter into the Field yet when it Thundred his Gyant courage shrunk into a Mouse-hole for then in a pittiful fear he would creep under a Bed from Shelter and confess himself as he was indeed a man Therefore however such things may truly be attributed to second causes yet both from Scripture and their own Nature we may be well assured that they are Instruments which God oftner uses in an Extraordinary manner than any others and which in their first designment seem peculiarly levelled at those men and their bold thoughts who would first only Droll the world out of conceit of his Power that they may as they think the more pleasantly Huff him out of his Throne In such an Age then when not only Profaneness is Rampant but Atheism its self is so Predominant as to have obtained the Reputation of wits for those as convicted by the Law of Nations for Monsters of Mankind the whole world adjudged to the Fire It cannot be strange if Omnipotence for its own Vindication has so visibly stretched forth its Arm by many late strange and unusual Marks of Power in almost all the Elements given us such sufficient Proofs that if we slight these we may ex●ect that he will shortly write to us in Belshazzars Characters For still we see one Prodegy succeeding on the Neck of another and as you will hear by the following known Relation we are called still from one strange accident to behold another As wickedness has been some times more eminently prevalent at some times than at others so in several Ages at such times we have answerable notices of Gods Anger in effects of like Nature Thus in the wicked Reign of Tiberius in whose time Christ was Crucified several of the most flourishing Cities of Asia were either totally swallowed by Earthquake or destroyed by Tempest And the City of Constantinople in the time of the Gothik War was so prodigiously afflicted this way that Historians tell us that the strange kinds of Noises Thunder Whistling Howling Crackling that were heard then were Incredible Infancy are the examples of these times but to cone nearer In the Reign of our Queen Mary in her 5th Year within a Mile of Nottingham so violent a Tempest of Thunder happened that it beat down all the Houses and Churches thereabouts cast the Bells to the outside of the Church-yard and some webs of Lead four Hundred foot into the Field wrethen like Leather The River of Trent running between the two Towns The water with the Mud in the bottom was carried a quarter of a Mile and cast against Trees with the violence whereof the Trees were pulled up by the Roots and cast 12. score foot In our Nebouring Country of Holland on the second of August new stile being our 21. of July there hapned a most horrible Tempest which lasting in some parts about an hour in some longer and in some not half the time in that short space did in all parts such incredible spoil and mischief that the like hath been seldom heard of to pass by the more minute particulars which are too tedious to mention we shall only give you a brief account of what hapened at Vtrecht and Amsterdam It is described to have been a most violent and unusal Hurricane in which the Heavens all the time by the continual Lightning Ayr and curled all ore with Flames not unlike what is mentioned commonly in Almanacks to have happened not many years since in England the noise of the Thunder and roaring of the Wind was so far above what is usual that it extreamly terified the hearers but was more sadly dreadful when they not only heard but many to their cost felt its Rage by the horrible shaking and fall of Houses Steeples and other Buildings of which it spared no sort but seemed to threaten to bury them all in one heap of Rubbish In Vtrecht the Cathedral Church called the Dome in less than a quarter of an hour with all stately Pillars was utterly Ruined all but the Steeple which remains untoucht the high and costly Steeple of St. James Church with the Steeples of most of the other Churches there are thrown to the Ground and all the Houses were so far involved in this general Convulsion that scarce fifty Houses remain in that great City but wear the the marks of its Fury In Amsterdam it lasted but half an hour but the force of the Thunder Lightning Wind and Hail in that time was prodigious Chimneys tops of Houses and Houses themselves were in great numbers blown down and most Trees blown down many of which were carryed a great distance from their former Places the Ships that lay there before the Pal●s brake loose of which about half a score were ov●rset many people were blown into the Water and many killed by the fall of Trees and Houses about thirty Mills there were blown down to the ground and those escaped are much damnified Five Waggons coming from Arnheim with Passengers were overturned and most of the persons killed or spoiled Lastly to conclude its fury extended so far as to force above 20 Ships on Shore in the Texel and its dammage and Terror is related by sufferers to have been above what my weak Pen or a more fluent Tongue can express Thus you have a Relation wherein you see how loudly in signs and wonders in Storm and Thunder God calls to Earthly Mortals let not your Ears be deaf but make some use of it It is Chronicled that in the time of our victorious Edward the third being in France and ready to fall upon the French Army then just by him there happened such a terrible Storm and Tempest of Thunder and Lightning that that couragious Warriour being affrighted with it as taking it to be a sign that God was displeased at that cruel War he took an Oath presently to make Peace on any reasonable condition which he accordingly performed FINIS